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In The Buff

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  1. The name thats been mentioned for the past 5-6 years. Maybe one day it'll happen, but at this point im guessing he'll retire before it ever happens.
  2. It boggles the mind how such an important piece of Buffalo Sabres history & our cities history could've been lost to chance or shall i say carelessness. Like i couldn't imagine a story like this occurring with the Leafs or Red Wings or really any other hockey team or professional sports team out there. You'd just expect more mindfulness would've been spent for keeping such an important document preserved for posterity in the 1st place. We're extremely lucky that it was Martin who purchased the auction & not anyone else & that the memorabilia wasn't accidentally destroyed/discarded or sold to another bidder. Thanks for sharing the article!
  3. ^Mignon.... its one of the best cuts of meat. At the very least, we can spell it correctly to honor its tasty goodness properly ? Point is regardless if its mathematically theoretically possible, the probability of us doing a total 180 from the past few years of hockey & becoming one of the hottest teams in the league down the stretch to make the playoffs is pretty much slim to none. Especially given our last game vs Ottawa where we got roasted 7-4. Just like that Filet Mignon, with the Sabres you can stick a fork in them. i wish i wasn't saying that but the whole 'you gotta believe & theres always hope' left the building awhile ago, anything else is just fooling ourselves.
  4. The math says i have a chance at winning the Mega Millions too... but that aint gonna happen
  5. Yeah it was, im glad i took a chance & watched it. In the early part of the documentary, i was struck by a comment their GM Jim Devellano said a few years into their rebuild about how he was "nervous" that they hadn't improved as much as they had hoped. It made me think of Jbot & how here we are in the same situation. I bet or i would at least hope that Jbot is feeling nervous as well. It took Detroit 6-7 years after drafting Yzerman (our Eichel) before they were able to get Federov & start putting an outstanding team together. Gave me a little hope that the years we've wasted with Jack could still be salvaged. All we need now is to draft Federov haha.
  6. I just finished watching this new documentary that came out called The Russian Five https://www.imdb.com/title/tt8006926 Its about the 1990's Detroit Red Wings & the whole impact of bringing over Federov, Konstantinov, Larinov, Koslov & Fetisov that they had on that franchise & on the NHL as a whole. It was really well done & even though i kinda hated Detroit when i was a kid, it gave me a new perspective on that team & their success & i thought i'd share it here in case any of you would be interested in checking it out. You can probably find it on Netflix or if you can't i can give you a weblink to stream it from my computer if you want. I also have a massive library of tv series & movies. Close to 3,000 titles hand picked in my collection. Heres a list in case anyone is interested. https://justpaste.it/6kyqf If theres something on that list you wanna watch, just let me know & i can give you a link to stream it from my pc as well.
  7. The benefit of hindsight helps. The team gave him that extension that seemed high at the time, based on his previous season, betting that in the future it would look like a bargain & obviously the opposite happened. His play fell off & a couple years later we decide we're gonna do a rebuild & buy him out. We switched GM's between the extension & the buyout so you had a total philosophical change take place. Darcy was looking to the future & then Murray was gonna tank for it. But after the buyout I believe Nashville picked him up & maybe he played another year or 2 but his play continued getting worse. It wasn't until 2017 or so where he was diagnosed with that illness. For me the issue was the 6 year $25 million extension on a player who just scored 15 goals. A gambling man can look back at that extension & figure it was worth the risk, committing that much to him & that much term. But was it the wisest move? I think its fair to question that. Not really worth doing now since whats it matter at this point. We have plenty of other problems we question multiple times a day. But this all occurred during one of our franchises darkest times. With many other questionable decisions that have cost us dearly & still do. We can chalk that up to bad luck but that doesnt sound right imo. Theres always an amount of risk with a GM's decisions. I think the best gm's mitigate those risks. Forgetting about the illness for a minute, but maybe only committing to him for a 2 to 3 year bridge deal to see what kinda player he really was wouldve been the less risky decision. Also i think it matters at the end, were we aware that Hodgsons drop off in play was due to a medical condition, even one we couldnt properly diagnose? Was there an alternative to buying him out? He retired a year or so after we waived him so if we were aware of his medical issues being a big factor in his decline, could we have stashed him in the AHL or classified him as LTIR or something equivalent at the time? Like with Okposo, we're on the hook for another couple seasons but if he were to retire we're not. Long story short i guess i blame them for committing that much to the extension based off his 15 goal season in the 1st place & i blame the buyout at the end by Murray. Obviously Leino & you can throw Ehrhoff & Moulson in there too. We have a history of bad contracts. But with the buyouts, Murray didn't seem to care about the impact it would have on our team for years in the future. Or he felt it was worth the risk. Hindsight isn't as kind i guess. Sorry for the novel i'm pulling an all nighter haha.
  8. Yep that'll be great news. Still gotta wait til 2022-2023 for Cody Hodgson & his $800,000 per/year to come off the books too. Really shows how bad we bungled those 2 deals, where here we are many years later & still paying for it... literally
  9. Yep... still not a real fair comparison imo. They're 2 very different players in 2 very different situations at 2 very different stages in their career. Not to mention one is 31 & 5'8 & the other 24 & 6' 1. It also wasnt until Marchand was 27 that he started to get nominated for All Star games & getting votes for Selkes. Thats 3 years older than Sam is right now. Might not mean that much to some but for me its important to distinguish that. Sam has consistently improved statistically every season & has had an arguably better career up until Sams point in his career than Marchand had. And as others have said, thats been on a pretty crappy team no less. But from a basic comparison of stats & what to expect for Sams next contract, I suppose on a basic level it works. Although im sure there are other options out there that may work better.
  10. I would agree. But Marchand is also what, 7-8 years older than Sam, with many more seasons under his belt? Its still possible Sam elevates other parts of his game & as he gets older takes on more of a leadership role wherever he plays.
  11. It also didnt help that Johannson was being held too at the time Or that Montour pinched in to go for a rebound (which was the right play) but he totally whiffed on the puck, got in too deep & got out of position.
  12. Here's the replay of the 2nd goal for anyone that missed it. https://www.nhl.com/video/larkins-second-goal-of-the-game/t-312106728/c-5218754 Im sure Sam was gassed at the end there & probably even thought time would expire. And i wouldnt say Sam was the reason that led to that goal. For me i think Risto shouldve stepped up at the blue line to prevent that play from ever happening in the 1st place... especially since time was running down in the period. It was as if he was a deer caught in headlights & wasn't sure of what to do, and that little bit of hesitation was all it took for Detroit to capitalize on it. But even still, it did look like Sam couldve tried to disrupt the play coming back into his zone. Even just tapping him with the stick couldve thrown off the shot. Think the guys are just frustrated at this point. Probably best Sam didnt say anything... whats it even matter at this point.
  13. Tickets for tonights game were going for as little as $3 on Seatgeek & i still couldn't bring myself to buy them & go to this game. Looks like i made the right decision
  14. On January 28th i posted what the over/under would be on thread counts for the "Jbot needs to go/Sabres suck" threads til the end of the season. I said 19 but i think i grossly underestimated the amount. Theres probably been 19 since then alone lol Just a sign of the times
  15. You mentioned earlier in this thread that we're now just seeing VO & Johansson from the 2014 draft come into their own as players. I'm looking at the calendar now, that was 6 years ago. How can you draft for needs 6 years out in the future? You can have general needs by assessing what you have in the pipeline. IE: drafting UPL to be your goalie of the future knowing he'll need years to develop. And to some degree certain positions are always "in need", such as defenseman & centers. But other than that you need to draft BPA. It just takes too long to develop these players to draft for a need now where in 6 years your team needs can & should very well be different by then. Only reason why we've been desperate for Center help for what feels like forever now is because we traded our 2C away & didnt adequately replace him after the fact. Leaving the need there for multiple years until Cozens or someone else is brought in.
  16. On the brightside, if we all die from the coronavirus, we won't have to suffer watching games like tonight anymore
  17. Very well couldve been. Theres been fears for a long time that a virus could escape the facility there. Highly coincidental something like this occurs where their top lab is located.
  18. Feels like i'm watching the Sabres play an All Star team
  19. Hope Vesey is alright. If we have any hopes of trading him he's gonna need to be healthy
  20. Dahlin does a lot of little things that i think go largely unnoticed by the average fan. Little plays to get himself out of trouble when a player has an advantageous position on him. Or sneaky plays at the blue line to keep the puck in the zone or create space. As he gets more reps, he'll learn more of what he can do & what works at this level. Not to mention adding more size & becoming a better player & all that jazz.
  21. Nice to get a goal at the end of a period & not have it happen to us for a change
  22. Bogo the Bozo. I bet Bozo was one of the names kids made fun of him with back in the day. I say one of the names because there must have been many!
  23. This game has the feeling it could get really ugly really quick
  24. I hear ya, the Avs were sure fun as hell to watch back in the day... Now if you were a Nordiques fan thats a different story
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